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Title: | The genetics of economic risk preferences | Authors: | Zyphur, M.J. Narayanan, J. Arvey, R.D. Alexander, G.J. |
Keywords: | Economic risk preferences Genetics Heritability Minnesota twin registry Twins |
Issue Date: | 2009 | Citation: | Zyphur, M.J., Narayanan, J., Arvey, R.D., Alexander, G.J. (2009). The genetics of economic risk preferences. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 22 (4) : 367-377. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.643 | Abstract: | We examine the influence of genetics on economic risk preferences by administering a measure of these preferences to monozygotic (MZ) (i.e., identical) and dizygotic (DZ) (i.e., non-identical) twin pairs. Our analysis supports a dominant genetic effect and virtually no additive genetic effect on economic risk preferences, with the heritability of preferences estimated at 0.63. These findings suggest that over half of the variation in such preferences can be explained by genetic factors, with the remainder of the variance explained by environmental influences not shared among sibling twins. We discuss the implications of our findings for the study of individual differences in economic risk preferences. © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | Source Title: | Journal of Behavioral Decision Making | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/44559 | ISSN: | 08943257 | DOI: | 10.1002/bdm.643 |
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